Football shorts: Spurs renew bid to land Brazil star

Spurs renew bid to land Brazil star
Tottenham are preparing another bid for Brazil international midfielder
Willian in the January transfer window. A deal for the 24-year-old fell
through last month after disagreement over the schedule of payments on a
£24m transfer. Shakhtar Donetsk initially accepted Spurs’ club-record offer
but the Tottenham chairman, Daniel Levy, is understood to have proposed
paying in five instalments. Shakhtar refused, asking for £12.5m down and the
balance in December.

Mancini tells Wenger to stop complaining
Roberto Mancini has told Arsène Wenger to stop moaning about money. His
comments, before today’s meeting between Manchester City and Arsenal, are a
response to renewed complaints in the build-up, by Wenger, about City’s
spending power. ‘We have the same history,’ said Mancini. ‘A lot of teams
like Arsenal have spent big money on big players. This is normal. We needed
to buy good players to improve and we